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[CLKD]

There will be different wildlife jaypo - get a book about local 'things to spot', any1 remember I-Spy books ? 

The wasps get a lot of our fruit  which is why we removed the Discovery Apple last year.  The almond, crab apples and rowan have lovely flowers from mid-Feb. onwards.  The rowan is 4 years in the ground and very slow growing. 

There's a break in MotoGP so off to feed the birds.  Again 

[jaypo]

We're not far from the hills,some nice walks,so hopefully see something,we have an abundance of sparrows in the tree right outside our living room window,so the bird feeders are filled,love watching them 

[CLKD]

Once you are there regularly I expect that you will see more species.  Unless they are more forest 🌳 living birds i.e. cross bills.  Look out for buzzards etc. above the forest, catching thermals.  You can hear them too.

The sparrow hawk was in the pergola earlier, the male blackbird alerted me as he swquerked away ......... oh the noise that the wren made  even after the predator had flown off.

DH had to plant a 2nd row of peas: probably mice had taken them but we couldn't find any holes 

[CLKD]

Yesterday 8/9 starlings suddenly arrived behind parents ........  we needed a brolley when sitting on the patio.
This morning a young wren was calling the parents  hopefully there will be several in the shrubbery 

[CLKD]

Wrens shouting.  Young somewhere ...... at least 3 

Jackdaw following me around the garden as well as standing at our front door, hopefully 

4 hogs around last night - 1 sniffed my shoes then scuttled off 

[Ju Ju]

Started seeing swallows, swifts and house martins ( I need DH to tell them apart) in their usual haunts. They travel so far, but land up in the same places. Amazing.

[CLKD]

Swifts rarely land other than to nest and they shriek when flying.  They do everything on the wing other than lay eggs.

Swallows have long tails.

House Martins I think, have more white feathers.

[CLKD]

DH could hear something scrabbling in the undergrowth last evening  ...... it turned out to be a May Bug  , probably female.  Probably hatching out of the ground, hence the noise. Hopefully the (5) hedgehogs didn't find her.

Birds at the kitchen door for meal worms.

Drizzling. 

[jaypo]

Don't you talk to me about May bugs, I have literally 5 minutes ago ran screaming upstairs whilst my OH scooped one up from the hall,was on it's back legs wriggling,must've been about 3 feet long,well,in my head it was 

[CLKD]

Put it into a box and deliver it here  .  The 1 we saw was nearly 2" long with no feelers.

[CLKD]

A blackbird is singing his socks off outside our lounge window.  I could hear two males echoing each other late last night.  Almost like they were listening for responses.

Few meal worms until Tuesday, I need to order another 3kg in the morning.  Tadpoles are growing, slowly.

[C.C.]

The robin's nest in the cedar by the front of the porch has been abandoned...too bad. I was looking forward to seeing some baby birds.  Maybe there was too much people traffic going in and out.

[CLKD]

Eggs/? left behind?  What do Canadian robins look like?

DH and I was quietly watching the birds in sunshine this morning when there was a whoosh as a sparrow hawk swept in, didn't get anything - sat on the washing line for a few seconds: if looks could kill!!!!

[CLKD]

4/5 🦔 s here last night.  I opened a tin of hedgehog food, why do they need 'several types of sugars' in a mix of chicken minced ........ 

Stinks too 

[Taz2]

Which brand is it? Mine love Mr Johnson's biscuits. The best I've found so far and is a recommended one by The British Hedgehog Society. Less messy than wet food.

Taz x